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<blockquote data-quote="stevew" data-source="post: 84241" data-attributes="member: 130">Sitting in his study after months of skin grafts and still looking red and swollen, John Ross says, &quot;What do we have?&quot;Liddy answers, &quot;The DLV Group started as DeLeVega Oil in Venezuela.&nbsp; It&#039;s a Spanish company now.&nbsp; But it still has more contacts in Latin America than any private oil company, especially in Venezuela.&nbsp; Your father had some dealings with the company and one time it was a major investor in Ewing Oil.&nbsp; They also have a very contentious relationship with Trident.&nbsp; Venezuela has tried to hold Trident responsible for an oil spill that occurred over a decade ago under Calco.&nbsp; DLV backs Venezuela&#039;s claim that Calco, then CalcoHarwood and now Trident is responsible.&nbsp; DLV has three off shore Mexican oil leases and two off the coast of Brazil.&nbsp; These are their biggest assets.&quot;Al adds, &quot;El Valle is a crime syndicate; its has taken control of most of the rural south of Venezuela.&nbsp; My sources say they&#039;re funded by DLV, and has the backing of the U.S. Government, getting weapons to them through Columbia.&nbsp; This country has been trying to stabilize Venezuela for decades.&nbsp; One of those missions of ours lead to the death of your grandfather, Jock Ewing back in the &#039;80&#039;s.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; Moe says, &quot;I&#039;ve got three sources inside Venezuela.&nbsp; They&#039;ve provide Al with most of our information regarding DLV.&nbsp; What&#039;s most disturbing to me is Calco&#039;s mess they&#039;ve refused to clean up.&nbsp; We&#039;re talking generations of suffering, birth defects, unbelievably high cancer rates.&nbsp; These people can&#039;t get out of the area that Wendell won&#039;t clean up.&nbsp; And he is responsible.&nbsp; He ran Calco when it was drilling for oil in Columbia on the boarder with Venezuela.&nbsp; Both countries have little environmental over site and Wendell was making a fortune.&nbsp; Those deals are what put Calco back in the black and cave him control of the company.&nbsp; The oil spill covered the Ebro water shed and flowed right into Venezuela.&nbsp; Little damage to Columbia.&nbsp; Massive damage in Venezuela not to mention the uncovering of slant drilling used to get at Venezuelan oil from Columbia. Calco&#039;s oil exploration was merged with Harwood and then acquired by Trident.&nbsp; And Wendell&#039;s been in control of it consistently.&quot;Liddy says, &quot;My father just keeps becoming more and more of a monster.&quot; &quot;That had been DeLeVega oil he was stealing, before nationalization anyway,&quot; Moe adds. &quot;They managed to keep the Venezuelan government away from it.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;So what you&#039;re saying is, we don&#039;t trust DeLeVega.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Not at all,&quot; Al agrees.&nbsp; &quot;We have some CIA contacts that might prove useful.&quot; &quot;Why are we a target is what I want to know.&nbsp; You&#039;ve got me the who, the how, now I need the why, especially why Southfork?&quot;&nbsp; &quot;I might have that answer.&nbsp; Your Uncle Bobby was in Venezuela on a mission to investigate slant drilling used to steal Venezuelan oil and the responsibility for the clean up.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;And?&quot;&quot;What we heard coming out of Venezuela favored DLV and El Valle laying blame right at Trident and David Wendell.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;So what&#039;s this a warning sign?&quot;&quot;What I heard was he found reason to believe El Valle had been in on the deal.&nbsp;&nbsp; Arms for access to DeLeVega&#039;s oil.&quot;&quot;So David Wendell, DeLeVega and El Valle were all in on this?&nbsp;&nbsp; And Uncle Bobby&#039;s where?&quot;&quot;No one&#039;s heard from him in Months.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Aunt Pam&#039;s in hiding over Wentworth drilling technology.&nbsp; Chris is keeping a low profile over his extraction process.&nbsp; And now Uncle Bobby&#039;s vanished.&nbsp; They certainly have a knack for ticking off the wrong sort.&nbsp; I want you to send El Valle a message for me.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pamela walks up the breakfast table by the pool. She kisses Jay and the Sofi on the top of the head.&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;Morning.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Morning momma.&nbsp; You excited?&quot;&quot;About the field trip?&nbsp; Yes.&nbsp; It&#039;s been a long time since I&#039;ve been to the zoo.&quot;&nbsp; Lucy just watches the exchange with distrust.&nbsp; Lucas says, &quot;Got a field trip planned?&nbsp;&nbsp; Me too.&nbsp; I&#039;m meeting with some people in Houston.&nbsp; Looks like we both got busy days.&quot;&quot;You going on a plane?&quot;&quot;Yes I am.&nbsp; Be down and back for dinner.&nbsp; Maybe we can get Amy to make chili for dinner.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Will you Miss Amy?&nbsp; Please.&quot;&quot;I suppose so.&nbsp; You want hot, hot hot or John Ross hot?&quot;Jay laughs, &quot;Regular hot.&quot;&nbsp; Bo approaches the table.&nbsp; &quot;Whatchya laughing about?&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Jay wants regular hot chili for dinner.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Oh we can do hot as hell but I don&#039;t want none of that John Ross hot.&nbsp; He&#039;s crazy.&quot;Ray, having walked up from the barns asks, &quot;Who&#039;s crazy?&quot;&quot;My brother.&nbsp; His chili is too hot.&quot; &quot;Nonsense.&nbsp; I&#039;ll tell ya what.&nbsp; I&#039;ll make my chili tonight.&quot;&nbsp; Collectively they all say, &quot;No.&quot; Lucy laughs and kisses Jay&#039;s forehead.&nbsp; John Ross approaches, &quot;What&#039;s so funny?&quot;&quot;They can&#039;t handle my chili.&quot; &quot;What, the women and children?&quot; &quot;Bo and Lucas too.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Same difference.&quot;&nbsp; Ray says, &quot;I want to thank you all for taking care of me these last few months, especially my partner here.&quot;&nbsp; Ray rustles Jay&#039;s hair.&nbsp; &quot;But I&#039;m gonna be heading back to the Southern Cross.&nbsp; I&#039;ve had it turned into a camp for foster kids to spend outta school ranching and what not.&nbsp; Something I been working on awhile.&nbsp; Got the place already.&nbsp;&nbsp; Youall will have to come out and visit.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;Sound like a great project.&quot;&nbsp; Amy sets a plate in front of him.&nbsp; &quot;You getting out of the cattle and oil businesses?&quot;&quot;Completely.&nbsp; Retiring and just gonna take it easy.&quot;&quot;Sounds like a good plan,&quot; John Ross says. Lucas adds, &quot;For grown&#039; soft.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;Just turn&#039; to catch up with you son.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; The two of them laugh.&nbsp; Lucas walks through the office saying hi to everyone.&nbsp; His secretary, he calls Gracie says, &quot;A Mr. Andy Smithfield is here to see you.&quot;&quot;Smithfield?&nbsp; Sure.&nbsp; Where&#039;s he at?&quot;&quot;Asked to set up in the board room.&quot;Walking into the board room Lucas says, &quot;Andy.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; The two skate hands.&nbsp; &quot;What business brings you over?&quot;&quot;Your daddy had me draw up some papers for his retirement.&nbsp;&nbsp; He&#039;s creating the Southern Cross Foundation and the Lillian Trotter Fund.&nbsp; In addition to their charitable work they&#039;ll take care of him.&nbsp;&nbsp; He&#039;s leavin&#039; the rest split up between you and your sister.&nbsp; Saddle Tree Enterprises is selling all of its cattle operations to the Southfork Cattle Company.&nbsp; It&#039;ll lease back the land for a dollar, giving all of it to the Ewing Foundation to protect it.&nbsp; The rest will be divided in two.&nbsp; The non oil assets turned over to a trust for Margret.&nbsp; The oil assets to you in the form of the Saddle Tree Energy.&quot;Pamela and David get out of a limousine on the tarmac next to a private jet.&nbsp; She says, &quot;If you expect out backers to back you, you&#039;d better make a good impression.&nbsp; You&#039;ve got a hell of a lot of strikes against you going into this meeting.&quot;&quot;The point is I can make them money and a hell of a lot of it.&quot;&nbsp; Pamela climbs the stairs of the plane.&nbsp; &quot;You&#039;d better convince them of that.&quot;Inside Jay runs over and hugs her.&nbsp; When David asks what he&#039;s doing there, she says, &quot;He is my son.&quot;&nbsp; Government agents scour a corporate office.&nbsp; One approaches an older man, &quot;Mr. Benjamin Wendell?&nbsp; I&#039;m with the FBI.&quot;&nbsp; He hands him a piece of paper, &quot;We have a pretty comprehensive search warrant.&nbsp; Your brother David&#039;s assets have been frozen.&nbsp; Are you aware he fled the country.&quot;&quot;We suspect he been laundering money for El Valle.&nbsp; Do you know anything about that?&quot;&quot;I don&#039;t even know what El Valle is.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;We have reason to believe he may have laundered money through Wendell P &amp; G.&quot; &quot;That&#039;s absurd.&nbsp; My brother doesn&#039;t have an investment in my company of any kind. We don&#039;t have any sort of arrangement.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;He use to refine your oil.&quot;&quot;When he had refineries.&nbsp; What&#039;s left of CalcoHarwood is just oil exploration.&quot;&nbsp; I don&#039;t have any business dealings with David Wendell.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Anymore,&quot; the agent corrects him.&nbsp; &quot;He&#039;s not invested in this company or is a creditor.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;My only partner is my x-wife.&nbsp; I built this company myself.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; The age turns to another agent and says, &quot;Get a search warrant for the x-wife.&nbsp; Freeze her assets.&nbsp; Name&#039;s Lucy Ann Ewing. Lives in Braddock Texas.&nbsp; Add Ewing Oil to the list.&nbsp; She owns a share of it.&quot;&nbsp; Turning back to Ben he says, &quot;Any deals with Ewing Oil?&quot;&quot;No.&nbsp; God no.&quot;&quot;Calco still refines your own.&nbsp; Ewing Industries is its largest shareholder.&quot;&quot;Unfortunate happenstance.&quot;&nbsp; Lucas sits in a hotel room with a much older woman.&nbsp; &quot;Impressive, your fight against your sister-in-law.&nbsp;&nbsp; I like to study my partners past dealings.&nbsp; When you emerged victorious over Lee Ann de le Vega she&#039;d already done considerable damage to your family&#039;s company.&nbsp; You&#039;re a formidable opponent.&quot;&quot;And a profitable ally.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;That&#039;s what I&#039;m hoping for as I take Ewing Oil into more Latin American investments.&quot; The two toast and drink.&nbsp; &quot;To Bianca de le Vega and all the possibilities.&quot;She sets her drink down and begins to undo his tie, and unbutton his shirt.&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;I can promise you, you&#039;ll enjoy this arrangement almost as much as I do.&quot;&nbsp; She runs her hands over his smooth chest and leans in, kissing him as he takes her in his arms.&nbsp; The private jet taxis to a stop on the tarmac.&nbsp; It stops.&nbsp; It&#039;s later descends.&nbsp; David walks out into the warm, humid air, palm trees and police cars.&nbsp; He turns and says, &quot;Where are we?&quot;Be hind him in the doorway Pamela says, &quot;Welcome to Venezuela.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;You bitch.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;It&#039;s a little a move I got from my father-in-law.&nbsp; Get your enemy to a country where you can deal with him.&quot;The police walk up and pull him down.&nbsp; Jay steps past Pamela.&nbsp; She hands him a briefcase.&nbsp; He walks down and hands it to the office in charge.&nbsp; &quot;Gracias.&quot;&quot;Gracias. Este hombre responderá a muchas personas por sus crímenes. Yo querría ser él.&quot;&nbsp;In his study with Al, Moe and Liddy, Liddy tells John Ross, &quot;My father&#039;s lost every thing.&nbsp; His partners in Trident are looking for any missing pieces he might have hidden.&nbsp; The payout to clean up the decades old mess in Venezuela has cost them all billion.&quot;&quot;Including Pamela?&quot;&quot;Her father. The money she invest was his.&nbsp; He&#039;s wiped out as well.&nbsp; And she managed to pick up the pieces of Trident on the cheap.&quot;&nbsp; Outside a Dallas high rise a plaque is removed and replaced with one that says &#039;Barnes Wentworth Oil.&#039;John Ross exits an elevator into a penthouse and marches up to Pamela.&nbsp; &quot;Is as how the hell you got in,&quot; she says, &quot;but it&#039;s not worth hearing the explanation.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;You took my son to Venezuela.&quot;&quot;Our son.&nbsp; Remember I&#039;m the one that arranged Elena be moved to a safer prison in exchange for adopting Jay.&quot;&quot;You left.&quot;&quot;So he could have a family.&quot;&quot;I&#039;ve noticed Sofi has taken to calling you momma.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Has she?&nbsp; Cute little girl.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;We can&#039;t go through this again.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;I&#039;m not here to go through anything with you.&nbsp; Your cousin interfered with my family and your enemy has my son terrified.&nbsp; Well he&#039;s not terrified anymore.&nbsp; David Wendell is ruined.&quot;&quot;I noticed it ruined Cliff as well.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Just old scores to settle.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Why Barnes Wentworth.&quot;&quot;I don&#039;t intend to be poor because my father had bad investments and because Lucy funds my long dead aunt.&nbsp; Unlike you, no one needs to hand me anything.&quot;&nbsp; She walks past him slapping his ass.&nbsp; &quot;Crawl out of here John Ross and enjoy your daddy&#039;s money.&nbsp; Let the adult take care adult things.&quot;He follows her. &quot;I want you to stay away from my children.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;You&#039;ll have to discuss that with Sofia but Jay&#039;s my son whether you like that or not.&quot;&quot;I&#039;m warning you Pamela.&quot;&quot;I&#039;m not worried.&nbsp; Probably the only person in Texas that doesn&#039;t tremble at site of you.&quot;&quot;You&#039;d better.&quot;Staring each other down they lunge forward at the same time kissing, ripping each other&#039;s clothes off.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="stevew, post: 84241, member: 130"] Sitting in his study after months of skin grafts and still looking red and swollen, John Ross says, "What do we have?" Liddy answers, "The DLV Group started as DeLeVega Oil in Venezuela. It's a Spanish company now. But it still has more contacts in Latin America than any private oil company, especially in Venezuela. Your father had some dealings with the company and one time it was a major investor in Ewing Oil. They also have a very contentious relationship with Trident. Venezuela has tried to hold Trident responsible for an oil spill that occurred over a decade ago under Calco. DLV backs Venezuela's claim that Calco, then CalcoHarwood and now Trident is responsible. DLV has three off shore Mexican oil leases and two off the coast of Brazil. These are their biggest assets." Al adds, "El Valle is a crime syndicate; its has taken control of most of the rural south of Venezuela. My sources say they're funded by DLV, and has the backing of the U.S. Government, getting weapons to them through Columbia. This country has been trying to stabilize Venezuela for decades. One of those missions of ours lead to the death of your grandfather, Jock Ewing back in the '80's." Moe says, "I've got three sources inside Venezuela. They've provide Al with most of our information regarding DLV. What's most disturbing to me is Calco's mess they've refused to clean up. We're talking generations of suffering, birth defects, unbelievably high cancer rates. These people can't get out of the area that Wendell won't clean up. And he is responsible. He ran Calco when it was drilling for oil in Columbia on the boarder with Venezuela. Both countries have little environmental over site and Wendell was making a fortune. Those deals are what put Calco back in the black and cave him control of the company. The oil spill covered the Ebro water shed and flowed right into Venezuela. Little damage to Columbia. Massive damage in Venezuela not to mention the uncovering of slant drilling used to get at Venezuelan oil from Columbia. Calco's oil exploration was merged with Harwood and then acquired by Trident. And Wendell's been in control of it consistently." Liddy says, "My father just keeps becoming more and more of a monster." "That had been DeLeVega oil he was stealing, before nationalization anyway," Moe adds. "They managed to keep the Venezuelan government away from it." "So what you're saying is, we don't trust DeLeVega." "Not at all," Al agrees. "We have some CIA contacts that might prove useful." "Why are we a target is what I want to know. You've got me the who, the how, now I need the why, especially why Southfork?" "I might have that answer. Your Uncle Bobby was in Venezuela on a mission to investigate slant drilling used to steal Venezuelan oil and the responsibility for the clean up." "And?" "What we heard coming out of Venezuela favored DLV and El Valle laying blame right at Trident and David Wendell." "So what's this a warning sign?" "What I heard was he found reason to believe El Valle had been in on the deal. Arms for access to DeLeVega's oil." "So David Wendell, DeLeVega and El Valle were all in on this? And Uncle Bobby's where?" "No one's heard from him in Months." "Aunt Pam's in hiding over Wentworth drilling technology. Chris is keeping a low profile over his extraction process. And now Uncle Bobby's vanished. They certainly have a knack for ticking off the wrong sort. I want you to send El Valle a message for me." Pamela walks up the breakfast table by the pool. She kisses Jay and the Sofi on the top of the head. "Morning." "Morning momma. You excited?" "About the field trip? Yes. It's been a long time since I've been to the zoo." Lucy just watches the exchange with distrust. Lucas says, "Got a field trip planned? Me too. I'm meeting with some people in Houston. Looks like we both got busy days." "You going on a plane?" "Yes I am. Be down and back for dinner. Maybe we can get Amy to make chili for dinner." "Will you Miss Amy? Please." "I suppose so. You want hot, hot hot or John Ross hot?" Jay laughs, "Regular hot." Bo approaches the table. "Whatchya laughing about?" "Jay wants regular hot chili for dinner." "Oh we can do hot as hell but I don't want none of that John Ross hot. He's crazy." Ray, having walked up from the barns asks, "Who's crazy?" "My brother. His chili is too hot." "Nonsense. I'll tell ya what. I'll make my chili tonight." Collectively they all say, "No." Lucy laughs and kisses Jay's forehead. John Ross approaches, "What's so funny?" "They can't handle my chili." "What, the women and children?" "Bo and Lucas too." "Same difference." Ray says, "I want to thank you all for taking care of me these last few months, especially my partner here." Ray rustles Jay's hair. "But I'm gonna be heading back to the Southern Cross. I've had it turned into a camp for foster kids to spend outta school ranching and what not. Something I been working on awhile. Got the place already. Youall will have to come out and visit." "Sound like a great project." Amy sets a plate in front of him. "You getting out of the cattle and oil businesses?" "Completely. Retiring and just gonna take it easy." "Sounds like a good plan," John Ross says. Lucas adds, "For grown' soft." "Just turn' to catch up with you son." The two of them laugh. Lucas walks through the office saying hi to everyone. His secretary, he calls Gracie says, "A Mr. Andy Smithfield is here to see you." "Smithfield? Sure. Where's he at?" "Asked to set up in the board room." Walking into the board room Lucas says, "Andy." The two skate hands. "What business brings you over?" "Your daddy had me draw up some papers for his retirement. He's creating the Southern Cross Foundation and the Lillian Trotter Fund. In addition to their charitable work they'll take care of him. He's leavin' the rest split up between you and your sister. Saddle Tree Enterprises is selling all of its cattle operations to the Southfork Cattle Company. It'll lease back the land for a dollar, giving all of it to the Ewing Foundation to protect it. The rest will be divided in two. The non oil assets turned over to a trust for Margret. The oil assets to you in the form of the Saddle Tree Energy." Pamela and David get out of a limousine on the tarmac next to a private jet. She says, "If you expect out backers to back you, you'd better make a good impression. You've got a hell of a lot of strikes against you going into this meeting." "The point is I can make them money and a hell of a lot of it." Pamela climbs the stairs of the plane. "You'd better convince them of that." Inside Jay runs over and hugs her. When David asks what he's doing there, she says, "He is my son." Government agents scour a corporate office. One approaches an older man, "Mr. Benjamin Wendell? I'm with the FBI." He hands him a piece of paper, "We have a pretty comprehensive search warrant. Your brother David's assets have been frozen. Are you aware he fled the country." "We suspect he been laundering money for El Valle. Do you know anything about that?" "I don't even know what El Valle is." "We have reason to believe he may have laundered money through Wendell P & G." "That's absurd. My brother doesn't have an investment in my company of any kind. We don't have any sort of arrangement." "He use to refine your oil." "When he had refineries. What's left of CalcoHarwood is just oil exploration." I don't have any business dealings with David Wendell." "Anymore," the agent corrects him. "He's not invested in this company or is a creditor." "My only partner is my x-wife. I built this company myself." The age turns to another agent and says, "Get a search warrant for the x-wife. Freeze her assets. Name's Lucy Ann Ewing. Lives in Braddock Texas. Add Ewing Oil to the list. She owns a share of it." Turning back to Ben he says, "Any deals with Ewing Oil?" "No. God no." "Calco still refines your own. Ewing Industries is its largest shareholder." "Unfortunate happenstance." Lucas sits in a hotel room with a much older woman. "Impressive, your fight against your sister-in-law. I like to study my partners past dealings. When you emerged victorious over Lee Ann de le Vega she'd already done considerable damage to your family's company. You're a formidable opponent." "And a profitable ally." "That's what I'm hoping for as I take Ewing Oil into more Latin American investments." The two toast and drink. "To Bianca de le Vega and all the possibilities." She sets her drink down and begins to undo his tie, and unbutton his shirt. "I can promise you, you'll enjoy this arrangement almost as much as I do." She runs her hands over his smooth chest and leans in, kissing him as he takes her in his arms. The private jet taxis to a stop on the tarmac. It stops. It's later descends. David walks out into the warm, humid air, palm trees and police cars. He turns and says, "Where are we?" Be hind him in the doorway Pamela says, "Welcome to Venezuela." "You bitch." "It's a little a move I got from my father-in-law. Get your enemy to a country where you can deal with him." The police walk up and pull him down. Jay steps past Pamela. She hands him a briefcase. He walks down and hands it to the office in charge. "Gracias." "Gracias. Este hombre responderá a muchas personas por sus crímenes. Yo querría ser él." In his study with Al, Moe and Liddy, Liddy tells John Ross, "My father's lost every thing. His partners in Trident are looking for any missing pieces he might have hidden. The payout to clean up the decades old mess in Venezuela has cost them all billion." "Including Pamela?" "Her father. The money she invest was his. He's wiped out as well. And she managed to pick up the pieces of Trident on the cheap." Outside a Dallas high rise a plaque is removed and replaced with one that says 'Barnes Wentworth Oil.' John Ross exits an elevator into a penthouse and marches up to Pamela. "Is as how the hell you got in," she says, "but it's not worth hearing the explanation." "You took my son to Venezuela." "Our son. Remember I'm the one that arranged Elena be moved to a safer prison in exchange for adopting Jay." "You left." "So he could have a family." "I've noticed Sofi has taken to calling you momma." "Has she? Cute little girl." "We can't go through this again." "I'm not here to go through anything with you. Your cousin interfered with my family and your enemy has my son terrified. Well he's not terrified anymore. David Wendell is ruined." "I noticed it ruined Cliff as well." "Just old scores to settle." "Why Barnes Wentworth." "I don't intend to be poor because my father had bad investments and because Lucy funds my long dead aunt. Unlike you, no one needs to hand me anything." She walks past him slapping his ass. "Crawl out of here John Ross and enjoy your daddy's money. Let the adult take care adult things." He follows her. "I want you to stay away from my children." "You'll have to discuss that with Sofia but Jay's my son whether you like that or not." "I'm warning you Pamela." "I'm not worried. Probably the only person in Texas that doesn't tremble at site of you." "You'd better." Staring each other down they lunge forward at the same time kissing, ripping each other's clothes off. [/QUOTE]

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